Creating Your Disaster Recovery Action Plan

Perhaps Disaster Recovery (DR) isn’t one of the hot terms like the Internet of Things (IoT) or Hybrid Cloud, but I would argue that re-examining your DR plan now might be one of the most important IT management initiatives on which you can focus your energy. Think about it. How ... Read More

Email Security Trends Coming in 2022

Organizations are under constant threat of cybercrime. While there are many available attack vectors, email is the most obvious path towards a full network compromise. The notion that email security should be prioritized is emphasized during this time where more and more businesses are still working in a remote or hybrid dynamic ... Read More

The Changing State of Cybersecurity: 5 Data-Backed Predictions

Cybersecurity is never static, and that’s especially true today. After widespread and frequent disruptions in the past few years, the cyber defense landscape is shifting. Favored attack vectors are changing, new threats are emerging, and organizations are rethinking their cybersecurity focus. Staying safe in the next few years requires an ... Read More

How to Take Care of Yourself When Things Go Wrong: Self-Care Tips When Dealing with a Cyber Attack

One very predictable part of cybersecurity is that the work is unpredictable.  here are routines that help to create a predictable rhythm, but you don’t necessarily know when the next attack will come, how intense it will be when it does, or when you will get to go back to ... Read More

Prioritizing Cybersecurity Throughout All Web Development Sprints

No one doubts the importance of cybersecurity in web development — and yet, often in the development cycle, we neglect to prioritize it across each sprint and into the final product. Making cybersecurity a priority throughout every development sprint cycle is necessary to combat the tide of digital attacks threatening ... Read More

The Winter Olympics and Cybercrime: Caution Is Urged

Hosting the Olympics is always a source of national pride for any nation chosen to do so. Whether in winter or summer, the prestige of the world’s eyes being on an event that transcends political differences and has sport at the fore is a prize many countries and regions aspire ... Read More

OT Vulnerability Management: A Risk-Based Approach

The number of missing security patches in an OT system is typically very large—measured in the thousands, at least. It would be difficult and expensive for an asset owner to evaluate each missing security patch / cyber asset pair. This may be one reason we see a patch everything approach, ... Read More

Privacy in 2021: A Year Worth Reviewing

With two new U.S. State privacy laws, new Standard Contractual Clauses out of the EU, more GDPR-style laws passed around the globe, and record data protection fines, 2021 provided plenty of fodder for an end-of-year review. U.S. Domestic: A Summary Despite a growing consensus on the need for comprehensive privacy ... Read More

Cybersecurity in Competitive Online Gaming (Cheating, Mitigation, and Vulnerabilities)

As the competitive online gaming and eSports industries gain legitimacy by becoming more popular and attracting mainstream attention, the question of competitive integrity lingers in the back of my mind. Can the game’s developers, community, and users maintain and uphold competitive integrity? Or will they fold under the pressure of ... Read More

ISO27001:2022 – A New Way of Working

It has been a long time coming! The upgrade to the international standard for information security management systems, ISO27001:2013, is here (almost). Hallelujah! If you’re reading this article, then there’s a reasonable assumption that you know what ISO27001 is and you’re not going to be too worried about the back ... Read More